Prof Dr Hans-Georg Kamann > WilmerHale > Frankfurt, Germany > Lawyer Profile

WilmerHale focuses on regulatory advice and litigation and counts large companies such as Meta as well as state-owned companies and state ministries among its client base. The team combines administrative and constitutional law skills with data protection and antitrust expertise and represents clients in related disputes before administrative courts and cartel offices as well as before the European Court of Justice; Hans-Georg Kamann regularly acts in regulatory disputes. He also provides regulatory advice on public digitisation and cultural projects and jointly heads the practice with Martin Seyfarth, who occasionally applies his policy-related administrative expertise in legislative procedures.

WilmerHale impresses with in-depth expertise in state aid dispute resolution, which it applies for transport, hotel and infrastructure companies in complaint proceedings and competitor actions before national and European courts. The team also assists numerous public sector players (especially state ministries) with privatisation initiatives as well as with the state aid compliant structuring of various cultural and scientific funding projects. Hans-Georg Kamann, whose expertise ranges from European state aid and antitrust law to data protection, heads the practice.

WilmerHale particularly focuses on complex civil and regulatory disputes, especially with an antitrust background, while the team also has expertise in corporate litigation as well as product liability and warranty proceedings. The practice is jointly led by Vanessa Wettner, who was recently involved in numerous civil proceedings against consumer protection associations, Stefan Ohlhoff, who is active in large cartel damages proceedings in the automotive, automotive supplier, finance and healthcare industries, and Hans-Georg Kamann, who handles antitrust, state aid and EU law litigation.

WilmerHale‘s antitrust team is experienced in antitrust proceedings, where it primarily represents large players in cartel damages proceedings as well as national and cross-border antitrust administration and fine proceedings; here, the team acts in both the defense against and the enforcement of claims. Another mainstay is merger control support, thanks to the close cooperation with the locations in Brussels, London and the US. The team is jointly led by Ulrich Quack (merger control),  Stefan Ohlhoff and Hans-Georg Kamann, the latter two are both experienced in cartel damages.

WilmerHale‘s team is led by Hans-Georg Kamann and focuses on regulatory issues pertaining to the pharmaceutical sector and medical devices. Kamann and Peter Gey regularly join forces in contentious proceedings for pharmaceutical and medical device companies as well as associations. Both act from Frankfurt and Brussels and advise at the interfaces with antitrust, competition and EU law. Martin Braun has data protection expertise and advises on product approvals and data transfers as well as clinical studies.